This little picture in the newspaper-slip gives us a transient look into an abode whose honest poverty and want are made more painful by evil-doing under the influence of fanaticism." I then read to my friends the following from a Southern paper;--I here omit the names which are given in full:-- "The touching letter which was found on the body of -- -- -- --, one of the insurgents, from his sister in -- --, -- --, has been published.

The following paragraph in that letter is a suggestive one: "'Would you come home if you had the money to come with?
Tell me what it would cost.

Oh! I would be unspeakably happy if it were in my power to send you money, but we have been very poor this winter.

I have not earned a half-dollar this winter.

Mattie has had a very good place, where she has had seventy-five cents a week; she has not spent any of it in the family, only a very little for mother.